There is no person working at Ericsson named “Anna Swelung”. They have confirmed that they will not be giving away free anything. So do me a favour and stop sending me this spam. It’s junk.

My name is Mr Ray Edward, I got your website in the internet, when i was searching for a good business partner interconnection to 2010 Fifa world cup that will be hold in your country south africa nest year,
Do you know a good profitable business that we can invest? I did it in Germany 2006 and i was favored so much, Get back to me with your kind of investment proposal so that we can proceed now,

Yours truely

Mr. Ray Edward.

Well Mr. Ray Edward, I have great ideas. Why would I give them to you? And if you are going to pitch me spam, at least try to get the spelling and grammar half-decent, not even all the way decent, just half.

Then enter SPAM. I have received two calls on two consecutive days from Nedbank client service research people asking me to participate in feedback client something-or-another. I told them my story and declined to participate. I also asked them to remove me from their database. Let’s hope.

Good day,

My name is Maria Norwood;I work with the Total Quest Services,a consulting Firm in London,
UK. We are conducting a standard process investigation involving a client who shares the same
name with you andalso the circumstances surrounding investments made by this client at HSBC
Bank Plc.The HSBC Private Banking client died intestate and nominated no next of kin to
inherit the title over the investments made with HSBC Bank Plc.The essence of this
communication with you is to request that you provide us information on three issues:

1-Are you aware of any relative/relation having the same surname, whose last known contact
address was Madrid, Spain?

2-Are you aware of any investment of considerable value made by such a person at the HSBC
Bank Plc.?

3-Can you establish beyond reasonable doubt your eligibility to assume status of next of kin
to the deceased?

It is pertinent that you inform us ASAP whether or not you are familiar with this personality
that we may put an end to this communication with you and our inquiries surrounding this
personality.You must appreciate that we are constrained from providing you with more detailed
information at this point. PLEASE RESPOND BACK TO MY PRIVATE AND DIRECT EMAIL ADDRESS;
mrs.mariawood@gmail.com as soon as possible to afford us the opportunity to close this
investigation.
Thank you for accommodating our enquiry.

Yours sincerely,

Maria Norwood
Total Quest Services
For: HSBC Private Clients.
This is a confidential message from Total Quest Services

Something smells fishy.

My most recent experience of Google was a two day festival of emotion and reactions.

Many people wont have a clue what I am referring to here but I recently saw a serious drop in traffic on SA Rocks:

Those red arrows…never good. I freaked out. Emailed people, tried removing things I thought might be problematic. And then Mr Jason Bagley tweeted the answer in geniously casual fashion: “check out Google Webmaster tools – might be able to spot something happening in there.”

Yes, the answer was there. SA Rocks has a problem. I am not going go in to much detail other than to say that thousands of invisible links are injected in to the SA Rocks template occasionally. I didn’t even remember this issue and consider it a problem. But it was. Google had booted me off their indexes. Not. Good.

The drop in traffic is the result of having every page, every search term, every SEO effort that you have put in for over two years vanish off Google. Gone, kaput, over. Again, I freaked out. This is where the angst, anger, frustration and a mass of other emotions began to flow. I hated Google. I hated the fact they could almost literally grind my hard work to halt by simply removing me from their service. It’s a shocker. And they are strict. If you haven’t made use of them yet, I suggest you head over and get on top of Google’s webmaster tools. They will prove to be invaluable should you one day be booted off Google.

I received a message in my Webmaster Dashboard alerting me to the fact that I had been removed from Google. I then Googled SA Rocks, South Africa Rocks, Rocking, SA or anything that I knew would pop SA Rocks on to the top of the ranking somewhere on Google. Nada. Nothing. Niks nie. Kak myself.

But it wasn’t too bad.

I was alerted to the problem by the helpful text-person talking to me on my dashboard. I figured it out, invisible links, google, spam, bam. Went to the origin of the links, manually removed them and then applied to be reevaluated by Google. This is an absolute must if you ever want to be visible on the known web again.

Then I honestly thought that I would be waiting for weeks. But I didn’t I waited for two days and was reinstated to the Google Indexes. Thank goodness. Can’t tell you how glad I am that this is over.

Be sure to check up on your website, Google yourself, your websites and your profiles.

Think at the point of receiving the error I was posting a link to WhyVOTE? to a group. Oh well.

I am trying to understand a few things:

1. How do these twammers choose who they are going to follow to make up the 20 000th follower.
2. What value does it offer them? If I don’t follow them I can’t see what they tweet.
3. Are they real people who have actually clicked “Follow” 20 000 times?
4. Why would you follow and receive updates from twammers?

Let me explain; a twammer by my definition is someone who insists on following thousands of people and in return hopefully get a percentage of those people following them.

Example:

This person

And this person

Another form of Twam is the constant links that are posted from people promoting their blogs. Mass twammers who follow thousands of people are the worst sort of link-twam posters. It’s frustrating.

I am all for posting links to your blogs if they relate to the current discussion or if you genuinely feel that people will find it of interest, but don’t twam me with every post. I have been trying out twitlink-something-or-other (there are too many apps nowaday to rememeber all their names). I don’t like it and will be removing it soon as I can remember where it is!

Basically I just don’t know how it is that I am lucky enough to be chosen by people like the two above as someone worth twamming. Is it when you reach a certain number of followers? Is it location driven, can they possibly be following your content and think you have a common ground? Surely not. Whichever it is, leave me alone.

are sent to you.

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Please, do not delete the given message. Money obtained from spam will go to the help hungry to children ugand.

Isn’t that wonderful? Spammers are now giving their self-confessed spam money to children in ugand, not Uganda, but ugand. Wonderful, I feel better now, let’s pollute the internet and my blog with your drivel.